For a short perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900 in the USA. Many would think that that was a pretty simple time of life. Then on your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war, including many of your friends who...
11 ventilators installed at the Thane Civic Hospital – all contributed by the Rotary Club of Bombay. The Covid-19 outbreak resulted in the curtailment or restrictions on patients going to nearby towns for dialysis. To alleviate their suffering and danger to the life of these patients, the Rotary Club of Palghar recently established the Rotary...
At the time of writing this report, India has 11,201 active cases of the Novel Coronavirus which have resulted in 437 deaths. The silver lining is that 1,748 people have been cured and the death rate in India is amongst the lowest in the world. Being a highly infectious virus and seeing the global carnage due...
Rtn. Shariq Contractor talks about government policies during the Covid-19 lockdown. There are many changes that have been brought in during the Covid-19 lockdown. The first that was announced recently was that the due date of filing returns has been extended to June 30th. This has been postponed not only with reference to Income Tax but...
PROJECT #1: Free Wellbeing Helpline Over 500 volunteers enrolled and trained and more than 50 professional counsellors in English, Hindi, Gujarati and Marathi. They are available daily from 8 am to 8 pm. [gallery columns="2" size="full" link="none" ids="22075,22076"] PROJECT #2: Distribution of free meals The Rotary Club of Bombay, in a joint project with the Rotary Club of Versova...
RCB HAD ITS FIRST-EVER E-MEETING NEEDED IN TODAY’S SOCIAL DISTANCING TIMES PP RTN. SANDIP AGARWALLA I am a part of the Government of Maharashtra’s CSR-Medical Equipments and Supplies group as well as the GoM Food group. Every now and then we receive messages that food supplies are not reaching this corner and that corner. I am happy...